Is India losing its way?

That was the question that The Economist magazine posed to Shashi Tharoor and me to debate. After two rounds of sparring, this is how I concluded. For every cheery statistic that Tharoor invokes, there are at least as many gloomy ones to be counter-invoked. For every irresistible force of optimism that insightful observers such as Pratap Mehta see in the churn that is India today, there is an immovable object of doubt and despondency.

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